Talmud for Numbers 13:33

He said to them²⁶⁹Moses to the scouts. One explains why the sin of the scouts, which kept the people 38 years in the desert, is the equivalent of the destruction of the Temple and merits inclusion in the fast of the Ninth of Av. Babli Sotah 35a., even so, what did you see? They told him, it is a Land devouring its inhabitants²⁷⁰Num. 13:32.; in any town we entered there people had died. The Holy One, praise to Him, said to them: Because of the benefit which I gave you, you are saying it is a Land devouring its inhabitants? In any town which they entered, a head of the town died. While they were occupied with him, they passed through the town and left before anybody noticed them. Not only this, but you said, we were in our eyes like locusts, and so we were in their eyes²⁷¹Num. 13:33.. You knew what I made you in their eyes. Rebbi Simeon ben Laqish said, they said things against Heaven: for he is stronger than Him²⁷²Num. 13:31.; even He can do nothing against them. Rebbi Levi in the name of Rebbi Ḥama bar Ḥanina: with a big uproar²⁷³Jer. 11:16., by the noise of the big (word) [uproar]²⁷⁴The text of the scribe (in parentheses) is preferable to that of the [corrector] since it refers to the blasphemous character of the statement in Num. 13:31. The public blasphemy started the fire. which you pronounced, He started a fire which broke its branches.